83rd Planes, Pilots and Crews
Lt Dean Johnson 83rd FS
The P-47 on the right with only the tail showing is HL-X, Lt. Col. Olin's plane.  Unknown on
the right.  Olin's plane was lost on the 14th of August 1944 with Captain Peal aboard.  
Possibly Lt. Marvin C. Bigelow  42-26591
PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN HOWLAND
Major General W.E. Kepner, Commanding General of the 8th Fighter
Command, meets in England with some of the officers of his command.
Back Row Left to Right:
Lt. Col. Edin S Chickering  Col. Hubert Zemke  
Col. James J Stone Jr.  78th
Lt. Col. Don Blakeslee  Lt. Col. Glenn E. Duncan  Col. Frank B James
Col. Wm. Cummings Jr.  Lt. Col. Einar A. Malstrom  Col. Avelin P. Tacon Jr.
Col. Joe L. Mason  Lt. Col. Thomas J. Christian Jr.
Front Row, Left to Right:
Col. Edward W. Anderson  Col. Murray C. Woodbury  General Kepner
Col. Jesse Auton  Col. Francis Griswold
Captain Donald J. Devilliers "Devil-Ears"
44-63208 P-51D 83 HL-U Lt. James S Peterson's "Wandering Boy"  
"SONOFABLITZ"   Possibly 43-6976 P-51B HL-V
Lt. Hubert Davis' Twilight Tear"  44-63864  HL-W
Captain Robert T. Green - Note unusual Tri-color checkerboard nose
Captain Robert Wise and HL-U "The Horrible Hoosier III"
Photo courtesy of Shawn Hamilton